Scott Treloar: Skiing in Singapore and how to quantify investor skill

I chat with Scott, the CEO of Singapore-based Noviscient, about shape of the hedge fund industry and how to create better systematic allocation to funds using machine learning techniques. Reflecting on his career in Deutsche Bank in Asia and running his own statistical arbitrage fund, we discuss the pragmatic applications of quantitative methods and the use of AI in society.

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Border to Coast hunts strategic partners as private markets set to surge

Border to Coast hunts strategic partners as private markets set to surge

The UK’s LGPS pool, £120 billion ($161 billion) Border to Coast, is hunting for strategic relationships with asset managers and global asset owners as it prepares to invest £40 billion in private markets. Chief executive Rachel Elwell speaks to Top1000funds.com about the fund's approach to finding long-term partnerships in the market.

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The twin forces rewriting the rules of investing

Portfolios built for the old world will be severely tested as emerging forces rewrite the rules of investing. The Fiduciary Investors Symposium heard that geopolitical and macroeconomic upheaval, together with the disruption wrought by AI, should force asset owners to rethink the structure and composition of portfolios.

CPP outlines risk playbook for a new world order

The $570 billion CPP Investments is strengthening efforts around scenario analysis as volatile fiscal, geopolitical and economic risk factors plunge the macro environment into a state of flux, with the fund naming four scenarios for the future world order within its risk management framework.

Asset owners must prepare for ‘fast and furious’ AI debt wave

Corporate AI implementation is accelerating, not decelerating, all around the world, and the capital need is vast, with significant debt issuance still to come. Asset owners have to decide where they want to get involved, and how.

Credit market flashes warning sign for software investors: SVP

The credit market is seeing elevated default rates that could climb over the next few years, spelling trouble for software investors, according to the founder and CIO of Strategic Value Partners. Red flags are also showing up in private credit.

Investors head back to EM as US tech capex bill mounts

US tech mega caps are grappling with surging capital expenditure, casting doubt on whether the premium attached to these stocks in the AI super cycle has become detached from fundamentals. Investors are now turning their attention to emerging markets equities where they have the opportunity to buy into the AI hype at a much lower price.

China tech rivalry is ‘existential’ for the US – and diversification

Decades of US economic and financial supremacy have made diversification away from it a drag on returns for many investors, but the forces that have underpinned that supremacy may now be coming to an end.

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